Meadows Elementary

As an average-sized elementary school in Portland, Oregon, Meadows Elementary serves 320 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Centennial SD 28J.

Within Centennial SD 28J, which oversees 9 schools and 5,304 students, Meadows Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Meadows Elementary logs that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 29% White, 13% Asian, 8% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Meadows Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.4:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 101% of students at Meadows Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Multnomah County (around 75%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Meadows Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.3%, the actual is 20.1%, a residual of -3.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Multnomah County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Meadows Elementary is one of 169 public schools in Multnomah County (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students).

Nearest neighbor: Centennial Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Meadows Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 18.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meadows Elementary has declined 23%, going from 415 students in 2018 to 320 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 40% to 29%.

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